Ubisoft Mainz
Moby ID: 2194
- Blue Byte Mainz (from 2014-06 to 2019-08)
- Related Designs Software GmbH (from 1995-01 to 2014-06)
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Founded in January 1995, Related Designs originally focused on developing medium priced games as well as advertising and online games. The experience gained in the production of a number of smaller titles led to the development of the company's biggest success - the real-time strategy game A*M*E*R*I*C*A, developed for the German publisher Data Becker.
The game was listed for eight continuous months in the German Media Control PC games charts with the best position attained in February 2001. In March 2001 "America" was voted "Game of the month" by Germany's largest computer game magazine "Computerbild-Spiele". Having sold more than 250.000 copies worldwide the game marked the company's entry into the segment of full price PC games.
The next titles released in 2003 were two real-time strategy games: Castle Strike, in which the player controls one of three tribes in medieval times, and No Man's Land, which features 300 years of history of North America, both of which underlined the focus of Related Designs to producing real-time strategy titles. As of 2006, they have handled the Anno / A.D. series of games.
Ubisoft Entertainment acquired a 30% share of the company in April 2007 and became the company's exclusive publisher. They would fully acquire the studio on 11 April 2013.
In 2014, the company was renamed to Blue Byte Mainz, and would work closely with Blue Byte's main Düsseldorf studio.
Credited on 18 Games from 1996 to 2024
| Skull and Bones (2024 on Windows, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series...) |
| Anno 1404: History Edition (2020 on Windows) |
| Anno 1503: History Edition (2020 on Windows) |
| Anno 1602: History Edition (2020 on Windows) |
| Anno 1701: History Edition (2020 on Windows) |
| Anno 1800 (2019 on Windows, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series) |
| Champions of Anteria (2016 on Windows) |
| Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege (2015 on Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One...) |
| Anno 2205 (2015 on Windows) |
| Anno 2070 (2011 on Windows) |
| Dawn of Discovery (2009 on Windows) |
| 1701 A.D. (2006 on Windows) |
| Castle Strike (2004 on Windows) |
| No Man's Land (2003 on Windows) |
| A*M*E*R*I*C*A (2001 on Windows) |
| Die Pirateninsel (1998 on DOS, Windows) |
| ARO und ELMI im Kampf gegen die Bakterien Bande (1996 on DOS) |
| Toffifee: Fantasy Forest (1996 on DOS) |
History +
- April 11, 2013
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Company fully acquired by Ubisoft.
- April 2007
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Ubisoft Entertainment SA acquires a 30% stake in Related Designs.
- January 1995
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Company founded.
Trivia +
The German online magazine 4Players named Related Designs as #3 Best Developer of 2006.
Location and contact information (June 2011):
Related Designs Software GmbH
Römerpassage 1
55116 Mainz
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)6131 - 55447-0
E-Mail: [email protected]
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Ubisoft Mainz
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Related Designs
Company website
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- 7 games with Ubisoft Düsseldorf
- 6 games with 4-Real Intermedia GmbH
- 6 games with Ubisoft SRL
- 5 games with Gamekeeper
- 4 games with Outsource Media Ltd.
- 4 games with Logrus LLC
- 16 games with Thomas Pottkämper
- 15 games with Thomas Stein
- 12 games with Sebastian Steinberg
- 12 games with Kevin Zellner
- 11 games with Tilman Sillescu
- 11 games with Burkhard Ratheiser
- 10 games with Joachim Schaub
- 9 games with Céline Païva
- 9 games with Nicolas Schoener
- 9 games with Yves Guillemot
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